Calamity Jane (1953)
- Directed by
- David Butler
- Genre
- comedy film, Western film, musical film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 192 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A rough-and-tumble woman in the Wild West pretends to be someone else and ends up finding love. She sings and dances through adventures with her friend Wild Bill Hickok.
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What happens
Calamity Jane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western musical film starring Doris Day and Howard Keel, and directed by David Butler. The musical numbers were staged and directed by Jack Donohue, who a year later would direct the film musical Lucky Me, also starring Doris Day. The film is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and explores an alleged romance between her and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel). Calamity Jane was devised by Warner Bros. Pictures in response to the success of the 1950 MGM film Annie Get Your Gun, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster), and was also Oscar-nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Ray Heindorf) and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller). The songs and screenplay would form the basis of a 1961 stage musical of the same name that has had a number of productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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